Actually Yum really is slow as a mother... I used apt, up2date and Yum on the same old machine, and what apt would do in 30 seconds, Yum would take hours to do (seriously). I think I left it to d/l headers overnight, and then when it was finnished all that it gave me an error and didn't end up doing anything.
Jesse Quoting "Andrew J. Kopciuch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 22 May 2004 19:19, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > i had to (unexpectedly) update a rather old Red Hat system (running 6.2!) > > today... decided to install FC2 to see how it went, 2.6 kernel and all =) > > > > Hardware: 500Mhz PII, 128MB RAM > > > > AMD-k6 500, Not PII. > > ;-) > > > > > only one problem. yum is amazingly slow. i used to think YAST was slow. > > then i met yum. and even worse: yum is a resource HOG. it wasn't unusual > > for YUM to take 80-100MB while installing a package! that's INSANE! > > > > Agreed that that is rather large. However ... yum on my machine takes no > where near the same amount of time (on FC1) ... or resources for that matter. > > I don't know what differences are between yum-2.0.7 in FC2 and yum-2.0.4 in > > FC1. Maybe somebody goofed something in yum? > > My machine is : > > AMD 2.4 gHz > 512MB RAM > > I'm not saying that the shortcomings of yum should be ignored by increasing > > your CPU speed, and throwing more memory in a machine. Let's also not bash a > > program, running on hardware considered to be to "decent" ~ 5 years ago, and > > whine about it's speed. > > ;-) > > I never could complain about my 1990 plymouth acclaim not having the same > speed as a 2004 mustang. Even after I had the tune up done. > > My suspicion is that urmpi, and yast would not run as fast on that machine > either. Possibly faster than yum ... I cannot say. > > I think the luxury of installing on "new servers", with nice new and fast > resources has spoiled our brains and fingers with speed. A fair comparasin > > would be using yum, urmpi, and yast on, at least similar, up to date > hardware. > > > 0.02 > > > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
